American history Quote by Bill Maher

“Whatever Obama’s other triumphs, arguably his greatest has been an expansion of the black imagination to encompass this: the idea that a man can…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

Obama's ascendancy unhinged the radical right, offering a unified target to competing camps of racial, nativist and religious animus.

— Barton Gellman

“The irony of Barack Obama is this: He has become the most successful black politician in American history by avoiding the radioactive racial issues…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

President Barack Obama read to a certain portion of white America as an unending attack on white Christian identity, centrality and cultural relevance. In…

— Joy Reid

Whenever any black man in america shows signs of an uncompromising attitude, against the injustices that he experiences daily, and shows no tendency whatsoever…

— Malcolm X

Barack Obama is not black America's messiah.

— Jesse Lee Peterson

“Barack Obama so spooked the bigoted whites of this country that we are now faced with a racist explicitness that we haven’t seen since…

— Michael Eric Dyson

President Obama is a man who had certain advantages because of the civil rights movement. He had the opportunity to go to some of…

— Danny Glover

What people forget is that the most radical thing about Obama is that he was the first black man in history to imagine that…

— Henry Louis Gates

“Obama had always to field demands from some blacks to be blacker, and the wish of many whites to whitewash the story of American…

— Michael Eric Dyson

“Obama’s policies and public statements, therefore, raise serious questions about the true nature of his core beliefs and values. Who is he and what…

— Reed Ralph